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I wouldn't overall say that "The Diagnosis" is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It's a modern tragedy.

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Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

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This is the tragedy and woe of the hour--that we neglect the most important One who could possibly be in our midst--the Holy Spirit of God. Then, in order to make up for His absence, we have to do something to keep up our own spirits.

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LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.

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If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.

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Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!

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Tragedies come in the hungry hours.

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The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.

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Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

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I fear that the impact of university censorship and university denial of due process will be to mis-educate a generation of students away from core values of civil liberties and constitutional safeguards. Students who have been led to believe by university administrators and faculty that censorship and denial of due process are acceptable norms will be more susceptible to accepting those norms in their post-university lives. That would be a tragedy for America.

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Although there may be tragedy in your life, there’s always a possibility to triumph. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

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With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.

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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

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Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps.

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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

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My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.

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And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.

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